64. Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting 
the Great Lakes, not only to what it was twenty years ago, but 
with the added knowledge that has come to the Fish Culturist, an 
increase of a thousandfold. 
DISCUSSION. 
Mr. Titcomb: Do I understand from Mr. Fullerton that he 
does not think the fish distributed in the Great Lakes are proper- 
ly planted ? 
. Mr. Fullerton: Yes, I do; I said they were not protected. 
Mr. Titcomb: Then you had reference to the inland lakes 
where they are not properly planted. 
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Mr. Fullerton: I refer to the inland lakes. I do not know 
very much about the planting of the Great Lakes at all. 
Mr. Titcomb: The government gives the fish away and peo- 
ple are furnished with minute instructions as to what to do, but 
people do not read their instructions. Ungestionably, it would 
be better if the states and the government could go to the expense 
of planting those fish themselves in all public waters, but if we 
plant all the fish in inland waters that are now delivered to ap- 
plicants, it will probably cost twice as much as it does at present. 
Mr. Clark: Ten times as much. 
Mr. Lydell: Twenty times as much. 
Mr. Clark: Yes, I think it would be twenty times as much. 
Mr. Titcomb: Then that means it is prohibitive and you 
must keep up a campaign of education. The people will learn 
in time. Federal control is the keynote of protection on all inter- 
state and international waters and until obtained you cannot 
protect the fish properly. I want to bring up one illustration 
because the United States Bureau of Fisheries had boasted for 
years of its great results from the propagation of shad, and for 
nearly twenty years after such propagation was begun there was 
a steady increase in the commercial fisheries; during the last 
four years the commercial shad fisheries have gone down very 
rapidly; when they go down so fast you may know that the 
end is coming, just as the Atlantic salmon fishery came to its 
